Wausau City Council OKs downtown warming shelter

Center to open Feb. 1

11:03 PM,
Jan. 8, 2013

Written by

Amanda Seitz
Daily Herald Media

Doors to a downtown Wausau warming center, meant to give homeless people a place to stay on wintry nights, will open Feb. 1.

The Wausau City Council unanimously approved Tuesday a permit for a warming center to operate out of St. Paul's Community Center on Fourth Street.

Catholic Charities in Wausau, along with other local nonprofit organizations such as the United Way of Marathon County, proposed the creation of a warming center, which would admit 15 adult men or women every night at 9 p.m. People who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol would be permitted to stay in the center for a night - ...